Julia Papazian Law

We’ve got some sad news today out of Philadelphia, where Julia Law, a young paralegal, was found dead in her employer’s bathtub. That may seem odd, but as it turns out, Law had been dating her boss, well-known defense attorney A. Charles Peruto Jr., for a month or two, and she had a key to his condo.

Law was supposed to be celebrating her 27th birthday today, but instead, we’re awaiting her autopsy results. Law was reportedly texting with coworkers until 1 a.m. on the day of her death, lamenting the lack of “scented bubble bath” at Peruto’s home. That was apparently enough to invoke police suspicion.

At this time, the cause of Law’s death is unknown, but some observers wonder if the beautiful young woman may have been murdered….

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Ever wonder how Leonardo DiCaprio manages to lure in so many supermodels (besides, you know, just being really rich and famous and handsome)? Now, we know. He lunges at them.

While DiCaprio’s exes Gisele Bundchen, Bar Rafaeli, and Erin Heatherton were unable to resist the allure of Leo’s lunging, Cara Delevingne is somehow immune, according to a report in Page Six.

As the two of them partied at Cannes, DiCaprio was apparently relentless in pursuit of the model-of-the-moment, who is 18 years his junior. A source told the Post that he “kept hitting on her,” and “even lunged at her at one point, and she dodged him.”

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Henry Kravis patiently waiting for some Chipotle in midtown this afternoon. It appears that someone has had it with assistants who apparently need “half black, half pinto” tattooed to their wrist.

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The eagle hasn’t exactly landed, but it did the next best thing. This afternoon, off the Virginia coast, the Navy’s experimental X-47B UCAS (Unmanned Combat Air System) became the first unmanned aircraft to do a “touch and go” on an aircraft carrier.

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The large gap between domestic US natural gas prices and LNG prices in European and Asian markets that underlies the rationale for US LNG exports has raised the question: when US gas is sold abroad, who captures that spread?

The difference between low prices paid for gas produced in the US – currently trading at around $4.20 per million Btu on Nymex – and much higher prices paid for LNG imports in European and Asian markets – at more than twice US levels – is behind a push to open up export markets to US gas producers. As the debate rages over what impact exporting domestically-produced gas may have on the US economy, Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) asked experts who profits from that price spread at a hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Tuesday.

“If you’re not making big profits on the price spread, who’s getting the spread?” asked Wyden. Wyden has been outspoken in his concerns that US LNG exports, absent government-imposed volume limits, could lead to higher domestic natural gas prices.

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We thought Julianne Moore looked as beautiful and radiant as ever gliding down yesterday’s Cannes opening ceremony red carpet in Dior. She was easily one of the evening’s best dressed and happiest-looking stars (despite the rain). Then, we noticed her feet.

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Robert Benmosche is still putting the finishing touches on his commencement address of hope.

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Look, we can’t have a final exam screw-up season without something happening at NYU Law School. For some reason NYU is like the ground zero of exam mishaps.

But not all screw-ups are created equally. Today we have a story of a professor who didn’t screw-up his final exams out of laziness or carelessness. Instead there was an honest clerical mistake. One that the professor took responsibility for and moved to correct as quickly and as equitably as he could.

Mistakes are going to happen, but law professors need to take this guy’s class in how to handle them…

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While New York is often referred to as the global energy finance center, it is not otherwise known as an energy industry focal point. That appears to be changing, however, as energy issues have recently shot towards the top of local and state political agendas and high-profile energy events – like New York Energy Week – are increasingly being held in the New York Metropolitan area.

Breaking Energy recently spoke with the New York Energy Week founders at energy policy research and data company Energy Solutions Forum about the initiative’s origin and goals. Energy Solutions Forum was created by a group of former banking analysts who found the need for a policy data service given the increasing Wall Street focus on regulations and policy that drive stock price movements.

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On any afternoon in Crown Heights on Kingston Avenue, there are sliver sightings of forearms, the sounds of heels clacking, the humming of stroller wheels, and tribes of young mothers wearing long, tressed wigs. The Brooklyn enclave is home to the Hasidic Jewish sect, Chabad-Lubavitch. Women follow the Torah’s strict laws of modesty or “tznius”–their elbows and collarbones must be covered, they have to wear skirts (not pants) that go past the knee, as well as stockings. Once they are married, women must cover their hair by wearing a wig (a “sheitel”) or a scarf.

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